Trash Tuesday!

I love living in a place where there is a trash day every day of the week,

Especially because we have one car and I need to drop off the boys early in the A.M.

I love driving around looking at what people are throwing out!

here is my curb side finds!

I found this umbrella!

I thought it would have something wrong with it, like a huge tear or something,

nope!

Its perfectly fine! now just to put it in the ground some how....

The next great find is this mirror!

 Sure its cracked and doesn't stand but I can use it for something!!

I might paint the mirror and put some fabric or paper over the mirror 

and then put up some candles on it!

There are some awesome spindles on that baby!!

This lil bolt held in the whole mirror, it was easy to take apart.

This beauty was hanging out, right next to the trash.

 who would throw out such a beauty?!?!?!

oh, thats why!

But thats why they make just the lamp part you can buy!!

after some investigation (IE me plugging the lamp) I found out it worked!

well screw my original plan!!

I just glued it back on!

The clothespins were there to keep it straight while the glue dried.

you can see where the ring was crushed here.

 The lamp shade was also pretty ripped up...

so I peeled back the bias tape and put it all back together!

You would have never known!

This trunk is in really bad shape on the outside.

It needs a ton of sand blasting~

At least it has good bones!

 Some awesome tags came with it!

This poor stand looks like someone tried to paint it.. And just gave up!

 poor thing! it just needs some love!

To be honest it found a loving home in my garage!!

my saws love their new home!

Thanks to who ever threw it out! it works perfectly!!

Thanks for stopping by!

M

Free make up storage!

I Have an extremely tidy and organized linen closet.

It looked like this up until I needed the drawer units to organize under my bathroom sink.

Yes, those are all mailing boxes that were free from USPS.com

But once I took out all the contents of the plastic drawers I had a whole bin of make up that I 

dumped my makeup into.

That so does not work when you are trying to find lipstick.

Solution?

Pillow case bags. the zippy ones that linens come in!

YEAH THOSE!

They were perfect for sorting the different kinds of make up in the one bin!

Foundation, lip products and eye products were the three categories.

I even had room for old glasses and cases!

So in the one space that I had this bin I can actually find what I'm digging for!

Thanks for stopping by!

m

what do you get when....

You mix two plates and two wine glasses?

a cute place to put your kitchen stuff!!

It was free, all I had to do was glue it all together, all I need now is a HUGE glass plate for the bottom and it will be perfect!

Thanks for stopping by!

M

shoes before and after!

I was in my sisters wedding about three hundred years ago and I wore these super cute heels.

I would never wear white heels ever again. 

so I tried dying them with rit.

this is the disaster that followed!

So they turned out a really sickly pink with red stripes..... not my style.

Whats a gal to do?

 Grab the spray adhesive and some ribbon and get to work!

after some work with an exacto knife they turned out really nice! they are still one of my favorite pairs of shoes, I even bought them in black!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

m

Fall ness.

I'm really struggling with my Celiac disease. 

Is it this hard for everyone?

Now that I'm not working it's very easy just to sleep all day after I've been up all night.

My husband expects that I have the ENTIRE house spotless when he gets home. 

Lets be real here, we actually LIVE here, its not a model house and I do actually craft in the house so I do make a huge mess but usually I clean it up when I'm done. 

It does take me a while longer to clean when I'm not feeling so hot but I do eventually get to it.

Some times I get carried away with crafting and I don't notice what time it is until I hear the garage door open and its too late, the husband is home.

Yesterday I cleaned the WHOLE garage. I have so much crafting stuff out there!

I am trying, believe me I'm a clean freak.

so today I did clean a tad in the living room but I had more fun in the entry way!

I finally put up the frames that I painted, even photos got placed in them.

Here is the before....

 AAAAand The after!

 the photos are, "something wicked this way comes" for halloween, one of my favorite engagement pictures, my niece and nephew and me with John Paul Dejoria (Paul Mitchell) and Winn Claybaugh (be nice or else)

the next row down is another engagement picture, my niece, my niece at my wedding holding my flowers and the last but not least is my grandfather with my father and his brother as children!

And whats that? there on the door?!?!

Its my new wreath!!!

 Isn't it just soo fitting?

It took me a whole five minutes to throw together!

The wreath form was FREE

and I just used scraps and ribbon I already had!

It just so happened that my initials are so easy to put in the center!

How hard is a v anyway?

I couldn't really screw that up!

Now lets see if the husband notices!

My next to do is the pantry.

please pray for me!

Thanks for stopping by!

M

New Bathroom decor stuff.

I finally got around to finishing this window mirror and I finally hung it.

I can finally color the back of my head!

 I don't remember if I posted these frames or not but here they are again!

along with my jar of silver sea shells from 2009.

I'm also really in love with this square shelf!

I'm also head over heels for this wine bottle towel rack my mommy bought for me!

 It's exactly what I've been looking for!

Thanks for stopping by!

More free decor.

The other day I picked up a bunch of free stuff off the side of the road 

including these two shelves.

the frames were free from various sources! I wasn't sure where most of the frames were going to go so I didn't dare put photos in them, plus I'm out of ink!!

I rehung my key art on the wall here.

 I'm getting a china hutch from my mom so I started to make room!

so I moved over all of my stuff.

 Here is the entry way leading to the garage!

with my free mirror and frames!

 I did hang the 'beware of wife' sign, so please don't get upset. 

I think its rather fitting!

 And finally the main entry way!

SUPER CUTE! (AND FREE!)

Thanks for stopping by!

M